#140RVW
Miyazaki-san writes & directs an instant classic. His 4th picture is an as good as it gets child’s view of the world & its wonders. #catbus
宮崎さんは書いていると、インスタント古典的に指示します。それは、世界及びその驚異の子のビューを取得するように、彼の第四絵は良いです。 ＃のネコバス
What’s more:
My Neighbor Totoro became my favorite of Miyazaki’s features before I was halfway through the film. (Since I’m not always as brazenly enthusiastic about his films as my daughter, she warned me prior to watching that we would need to divide the house if I didn’t love this one. I swear that didn’t affect my judgment, though…)
People everywhere love Totoro and it’s easy to understand why. Even by the standards of Miyazaki, who has a well-deserved reputation for understanding the way children think and putting it on screen, Totoro has a child-like glee to it.
The man just seems to understand kids and their unique outlook on the world.
It was very interesting watching this 1988 86-minute film so soon after seeing his latest, 2013’s two-plus hour The Wind Rises. While I maintain my belief that his latest is the best of his works, I really loved My Neighbor Totoro for almost entirely different reasons.
Where in some of his other films, such as Ponyo & Spirited Away, I felt the strangeness of the worlds detracted from the narrative, Totoro has a straightforward story that is only enhanced by the otherworldly components.
This is a truly entertaining tale; if you removed Totoro and the Catbus and the Sootsprites it would still be a very good movie. The emotions and behaviors of the children is so authentic and tone perfect that you welcome the other characters – but you don’t need them. The children are driving the (cat)bus…
Poster:
Trailer:
Bechdel Test:
Pass
The Representation Test Score: A (14 pts)
(http://therepresentationproject.org/grading-hollywood-the-representation-test/)
| Main Cast | Hitoshi Takagi Totoro (voice), Noriko Hidaka Satsuki (voice), Toshiyuki Amagasa Kanta (voice), Paul Butcher Kanta (voice: English version) |
| Rating | G |
| Release Date | Sat 16 Apr 1988 UTC |
| Director | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Plot | When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. |
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| Runtime | 86 |
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| Writers | Hayao Miyazaki (written by) |
| Year | 1988 |